Shelly: You're on the right track with your locations. As you've discovered, the city-county-state-country format doesn't necessarily work outside the US. The farm name is very important for Norwegian locations so I would stick with what you have. Others on the list are much more qualified to speak to English locations. I think you just need to recognize that you may have different formats for different countries and try to be consistent from country to country.
For early American locations you first need to decide on a cutoff date. I use 4 Jul 1776 because it's so recognizable but it's probably historically incorrect. (Simply declaring independence didn't make it a fact.) Nevertheless, for US locations prior to 1776 or whatever date, you can use city, county, and province. You'll have to decide whether you want to use the placeholder commas or not. I think the most convenient way to find official names of provinces is Wikipedia but be aware that even these changed over time. An alternate that some use is to put "British North America" or "BNA" in the country position, although this is really not a country name. The abbreviation can be confusing, and the full term gets tedious to read in reports while I think that most readers would recognize where Massachusetts Bay Colony was without the BNA designation (although our Australian friends may disagree). Just some things to think about. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michelle Crosby Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:58 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Locations Hi group, Just a lurker here who has gained a lot of information on how to best utilize Legacy. In fact, at work I tell people to go to the web site and check it instead of buying another program- I Work for a large retail store that provides software etc. However, being a totally "nut" case with family history/genealogy- I must point customers to the best program - in the long Run they will be happy and return to buy a computer from me J I found out that I had entered places incorrect- now I enter them City,County,State, Country- Here is my questions: 1. How should I enter State and Country prior to the United States being formed? 2. How should I enter those family members from another Country IE I have ancestors from Norway- They were located on Hanes Farm, Solumn Parish, Telemark, Norway- is this the correct way to enter it? How should I enter those from England? I am trying to clean up my data base prior to receiving the download instructions for my upgrade from V. 6 to V. 7- BTW if you all love Virtual Earth from Microsoft- check out Google maps- some of the large cities in the US have been photographed- enter the address street city and state- it will Take you to the house and you can actually view it- so if you are lucky and your ancestor's home is still there, you can see it- it gives you an idea of the house that they lived in Thanks for your help Shelly Crosby Illinois Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
